A Japanese manager explained his culture’s communication style to an American: “We are a homogeneous people and don’t have to speak as much as you do here. When we say one word, we understand ten, but here you have to say ten to understand one.”

Seibel: You've done a lot of your work in Perl, which is a pretty high-level language. How low do you think programmers need to go-do programmers still need to know assembly and how chips work? Fitzpatrick: I don't know. I see people that are really smart-I would say they're good programmers-but say they only know Java. The way they think about solving things is always within the space they know. They don't think end-to-end as much. I think it's really important to know the whole stack even if you don't operate within the whole stack.

Note:"..it's really important to know the whole stack even if you don't operate within the whole stack"